Method for producing high-pressure gas storage container

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11590725-B2
Application number	US-202117159763-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 27, 2021
Priority date	Mar 4, 2016
Publication date	Feb 28, 2023
Grant date	Feb 28, 2023

Abstract

A method produces a high-pressure gas storage container that includes a liner and a reinforcing layer. The liner houses a high-pressure gas. The reinforcing layer is formed by winding a plurality of strip-shaped reinforcing members around an outer perimeter surface of the liner. The method includes irradiating plasma on at least a portion of the reinforcing fibers, and adjusting an irradiation intensity of the plasma such that an irradiation amount of the plasma with respect to the reinforcing fibers becomes constant in accordance with changes in a transport speed of the reinforcing fibers.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for producing a high-pressure gas storage container having a liner for housing high-pressure gas and a reinforcing layer that is formed by winding strip-shaped reinforcing members around an outer perimeter surface of the liner, the method comprising:
irradiating plasma on at least a portion of reinforcing fibers;
forming the reinforcing members by impregnating the reinforcing fibers with resin;
winding the reinforcing members around the outer perimeter surface of the liner; and
adjusting an irradiation intensity of the plasma such that an irradiation amount of the plasma with respect to the reinforcing fibers becomes constant in accordance with changes in a transport speed of the reinforcing fibers.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein
the winding of the reinforcing members around the outer perimeter surface of the liner includes helically winding one of the reinforcing members provided with the reinforcing fibers that are irradiated with the plasma in a spiral shape.

3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein
the winding of the reinforcing members around the outer perimeter surface of the liner includes hoop winding of the reinforcing member provided with the reinforcing fibers that are irradiated with plasma in a circumferential direction around a center of a body portion of the liner that has a tubular shape extending in an axial direction, and
the reinforcing fibers that constitute the reinforcing members that are wound in during the hoop winding are configured such that the irradiation amount of the plasma that is irradiated thereon is less than that of the reinforcing fibers that constitute the reinforcing member that is wound during the helically winding.

4. The method according to claim 2 further comprising
the winding of the reinforcing members includes hoop winding of one of the reinforcing members in a circumferential direction around a center of a body portion of the liner that has a tubular shape extending in an axial direction, and
the reinforcing fibers that constitute the reinforcing member that is wound in the hoop winding step has not been irradiated with plasma.

5. The method according to claim 2 , wherein
the helically winding of the reinforcing members includes
a first helical winding of one of the reinforcing members at an angle that is tilted from an axial direction of the liner by a first tilt angle, and
a second helical winding of one of the reinforcing members at an angle that is tilted from the axial direction by a second tilt angle, which is smaller than the first tilt angle, and
the reinforcing fibers that constitute the reinforcing member that is wound at the first tilt angle are configured such that the irradiation amount of the plasma that has been irradiated thereon becomes less than that of the reinforcing fibers that constitute the reinforcing member that is wound at the second tilt angle.

6. The method according to claim 5 , wherein
the reinforcing member is wound at the first tilt angle that is tilted by 55 degrees or more with respect to the axial direction, and
the reinforcing member is wound at the second tilt angle that is tilted by less than 55 degrees with respect to the axial direction.

7. The method according to claim 3 , wherein
the transport speed of the reinforcing fibers when the irradiation amount of the plasma is small is faster than the transport speed of the reinforcing fibers when the irradiation amount of the plasma is large.

8. The method according to claim 2 , wherein
the adjusting of the irradiation intensity is carried out during the helically winding of the reinforcing members.

9. The method according to claim 1 , wherein
the plasma is irradiated on a surface of the reinforcing fibers from a direction that is tilted with respect to a direction that is orthogonal to the surface of the reinforcing fibers.

Assignees

• Nissan Motor

Inventors

• Takemoto Shinichiro
• Uchida Hiroshi
• Kono Kentaro

Classifications

• F17C2203/0621

  with three layers · CPC title

• F17C2203/0612

  Wall structures · CPC title

• D06M10/025

  Corona discharge or low temperature plasma · CPC title

• F17C2203/0665

  radially wound · CPC title

• F17C2270/0168

  by vehicles · CPC title